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= The Federation requires a status report. =

Choose a Team reporter to place your team responses here.

=Mini-Mission 1: Advocating and Implementing Project Based Learning=
 * Reflect on what you have learned about the structure, components, and rationale for project based learning and complete this mission:**
 * 1) Provide a rational for why PBL will be more successful methodology than conventional means of lecture and large class discussion.
 * 2) Same content can be covered and allows other than teacher to be the giver of the content
 * 3) Students are more engaged - should enhance retention and academic performance
 * 4) Students can look at subject through their own lens....how it relates to them
 * 5) Provide possible PBL projects for each of the subjects taught: math, social studies, science and Antiquan language arts.
 * 6) There seems to be dead space in any school - Get students to take a dead space (do research about why it was there, look at dimensions, determine needs, population interests, how environment is impacted) and see what students can come up with to utilize this space.
 * 7) This covers Math, Social Studies, Science, English, Art, Tech Ed,
 * 8) Provide either a short jingle to help the Antiquans remember project based learning or an illustration that would help the Antiquans remember project based learning.

**Let the students lead the way!**
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=Mini-Mission 2: Wisdom of the Crowd: Next Steps= After analyzing and synthesizing the ideas on your chart, work together as a team to wordsmith 5-10 measurable next steps around implementation of your category

** Shift of Administration, board, superintendent **

Arrange meetings with administrators to define roles – establish a common, shared vision

Administration needs to emphasize importance of technology

Create a technology committee with all stakeholders represented.

Develop a 3-5 year plan for PD to support the vision and recommendations of the technology committee

Establish goals for district, building and teachers to support this plan

Set up peer evaluation, collaboration, and co-teaching to support technology integration

Use teachers as leaders

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=Mini-Mission 3: Know Your Support Systems - Full Speed Ahead= The results of the survey are here. We suggest that you save a copy of this spreadsheet so that you can sort it as you wish to be able to analyze the responses. (Team, Room, IU, etc)

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=Mini-Mission 4: Model Lessons and Galactic "Monsters"=
 * Reflection on Model Lessons:** Use the Discussion tab to respond.

Discuss these prompts with your teammates
 * Battling the Galactic "Monster" Discussions**
 * What strategies you have used to overcome the "monsters"?
 * Who are some of the key people in the district who MUST be on your side in order to be successful?
 * As you share your strategies, consider using some for your Individual Mission

Small steps, professional development, emphasize technology when rewriting curriculum, get teachers to pass along knowledge; teach skills to students early to encourage use later

Be creative in funding (examine potential special education funding)

Technology director, principals, superintendent, school board, community understanding of the importance of technology in creating successful students.

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=Mini-Mission 5: Presentation to the Federation= After you have reflected (and revised?) your project, post it below. Either upload the file, embed the project, or post a link to your project.

//**Note**//: The Individual Instructional Coach Mission (IICM) should be uploaded to your specific IU page here. Please save your mission (document, podcast, movie, prezi, etc. ) with your name.

Post Final Team Mission Projects Here:
Here is our final project:

media type="file" key="cffland.mov"

We first used Google Docs presentation to collaborate ideas and slides Then recorded sound exported to Keynote created movie

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